Trillium persistens

Persistent trillium

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Monocots
Order:Liliales
Family:Melanthiaceae
Genus:Trillium
Species: T. persistens
Binomial name
Trillium persistens
Duncan, 1971

Trillium persistens, the persistent trillium, is a North American species of flowering plants in the genus Trillium of family Melanthiaceae (formerly Trilliaceae). The plant is also called the persistent wakerobin.[2][3]

Persistent trillium is an endangered herbaceous perennial plant that grows to a height of 20–30 cm, with three leaves in a whorl near the top of the stem just below the flower; each leaf is broad lanceolate, 3–9 cm long and 1.5–3.5 cm broad. The white flower has three petals, each petal 2–3.5 cm long and 0.5–1 cm broad.[4]

This plant has a limited range in parts of the United States in the northeastern Georgia and northwestern South Carolina.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Trillium persistens". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
  2. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Duncan, Wilbur Howard 1971. Rhodora 73(794): 244–248
  4. ↑ Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 101 Trillium persistens W. H. Duncan, Rhodora. 73: 244. 1971.
  5. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
Persistent trillium, data sheet and photo
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